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“Kurds in northern Iraq are reaching out to a group of people with whom they believe share a historic ethnic connection, and many common enemies”.
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As if Iran would bother to pay attention to what anyone tells it to do, let alone the United Nations- that hapless, useless waste of an organization- the UN’s...
made popular Aug 28 2010
Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region wants written guarantees from Iraq’s main political leaders that key Kurdish issues, such as the region’s right...
made popular Jun 16 2010
It’s not just the Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists or other religious groups that feel the brunt of the intolerance voiced by extremist Muslim clerics,...
made popular Oct 18 2010
The plight of hundreds of children currently languishing in adult jails in Turkey has become the center of a major political debate. The children, most of whom are...
made popular May 19 2010
This past Sunday, Iraqis went to the polls and this election may either mark a new dawn in the country or spell a new burst of sectarian conflict. One, of course, hopes...
made popular Mar 9 2010
Turkey’s top court on Friday banned a pro-Kurdish political party on charges of ties to Kurdish rebels, a decision likely to disrupt a struggling reconciliation...
made popular Dec 12 2009
The border crossing by 34 Kurds from Iraq to Turkey on Monday might not seem much of an event, in a region plagued for decades by a conflict which has cost tens of...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Two men have been arrested for people smuggling after 64 Kurds were found in the back of a lorry in Styria.
Graz police said today (Weds) two men, an Austrian and a...
made popular Oct 15 2009
It is acceptable to be opposed to Turkish acceptance into the European Union if objections are made on legitimate grounds of, say, criticism of Turkey’s...
made popular Sep 4 2009
It is called the “trigger line”, a 300-mile long swathe of disputed territory in northern Iraq where Arab and Kurdish soldiers confront each other, and...
made popular Aug 11 2009
Turkey is an enviable nation. Not only is it rich in history, home to one of the world’s most incredible city, and bestowed with an abundance of natural beauty....
made popular Mar 7 2009
Although relations seem to be improving between Turkey and the Kurds, relations between Arabs and Kurds in Iraq is soring . Previously Kurdish parties had dominated...
made popular Feb 24 2009
Turkey has had a tenuous relationship with Kurds for decades. Although Moustafa Kamel deserves a lot of credit for moving Turkey onto the path of democracy and...
made popular Feb 24 2009
“On 25 February 2008, the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Farzad Kamangar to death on charges of “endangering national security” and...
made popular Nov 30 2008
In a previous piece of mine, I suggested that that there is an apparent nascent political polarity in the Middle East getting over time more connected to two poles in...
made popular Nov 19 2008
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made popular Aug 30 2008
Many of us think that the first war between the two countries was the first gulf war. And that is incorrect information. The history goes back even before the Persian...
made popular May 25 2008
Bush’s excursion in Iraq has been a complete mess from the very start and this has been conceded in virtually every quarter (except of course, the Bush...
made popular Jun 7 2007
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A suicide bomber having made his way through several layers of fortified security struck at the very institution that is expected to usher democracy in a nation yet to...
made popular Apr 13 2007
Iraq faced the deadliest day when Sunnis murdered at least 160 people injuring 250 in a sectarian violence yesterday through well-planned car bombing and mortar attacks...
made popular Nov 24 2006
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